OCEANS:
Nota Bene: Why Did the Penguins Gasp?
A review by Caroline Ash and Samuel Ash Croft
The Blue Planet A Natural History of the Oceans
Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, and Martha Holmes
BBC One, Fall, 2001. Discovery Channel, January, 2002. Eight 50-minute episodes.
BBC Worldwide, London, 2001. 384 pp. £24.99. ISBN 0-563-38498-0. DK, New York, 2002. $40. ISBN 0-7894-8265-7.
This eight-part series from the BBC Natural History Unit is filled with breathtaking sequences that depict the ocean life and habitats from pole to pole and from high tide to the abyss.